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    Cool, I was wondering what I'd do with my Rakuten points.

    Posted in: Rakuten Super Points now convertible to Rakuten Edy electronic money

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    Real dogs>Cats > pampered ratty lap dogs (the seeming majority in Japan). in that order. That is all.

    Posted in: Which are more loved in Japan: Cats or dogs?

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    I suppose open software like GIMP will benefit from this move.

    I tried out GIMP just recently and it seemed powerful though with a steep learning curve. Could be the boost GIMP needs to became more relevant and widely used.

    All Adobe staff seem to want to become millionaires.

    greed.

    Posted in: Adobe shifts to subscriptions for software package

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    hotmail spam filters -work well? like heck! As leaky as a boat load of porcupines. Hotmail forever let spam through, gmail - google on the other hand have excellent spam filters. Hotmail got ditched long ago, especially at the time when gmail was offering 1GB and Hotmail was still stuck on 2MB.

    Bye hotmail.....So long and thanks for all the phish

    Posted in: Hotmail is dead as Outlook.com takes over

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    30 of them? I would have thought 5 seconds upon entering the water, they would have realized how frigid the alpine lake waters were in May and quickly bail from such foolhardy escapades - it's something Navy Seals would do for training. A waste of young life.

    http://goo.gl/maps/bxBBk google map link, click on the little yellow "street view man" and drag him on the panaramio photo on the end of the wharf to get a good shot of how far the island is from the lakes edge.

    Posted in: 2 students drown while swimming in Nagano lake

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    speared him in the chest as he tried to entice it from the ring. He was confirmed dead at a hospital two hours later

    I would say the guy died fairly quickly rather than lingering for two hours. The Japanese system of "confirming dead" by a doctor at Hospital never really gives an accurate timeline of events. Gored in the chest cant be a nice way to go, I hope for his sake that it was over quickly.

    You can never get too complacent around un-snipped male farm animals. Bulls, Stags, Ram, Bucks - Give them all a wide berth.

    Posted in: Man gored to death in bull ring

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    A tad disingenuous It's not like a person who drinks one can a day is eating healthy whole foods and just having one sneaky can of soda - It's not their only nutritional indiscretion.

    They eating sugar filled breads and snacks, and other processed high carbohydrate foods, pasta and breads and cakes, cookies, potato chips etc etc.

    it's the whole package, you cant single out one item, you have to look at the total.

    Many findings about meat consumption also suffer from similar read herrings. It's not necessarily the item being studied, it's all the other crap that people consume.

    Posted in: Sugary drinks can raise diabetes risk by 22%

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    contain nudity, politically sensitive issues, as well as extreme levels of violence, must be edited out

    well in Django that's half the movie, essentially the "edited" version will be totally unwatchable. China has plenty of bigger fish to fry: political corruption, Tibet, Uighurs, horrendous pollution, human rights, but hey they have hit the real issues" swiftly. yes sir Great job China. (slow clapping) My real fear is that the Chinese market will become such huge to Hollywood pockets that it'll dictate the direction of movies...or they will just make separate versions like they did on Iron man 3.

    Posted in: 'Django Unchained' gets May China release after 'issues' resolved

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    considering that Haagen Dazs is pretty pricey in the Conbeni and supermarket, perhaps their prices in the retail outlets was just too high? Just guessing. People have less and less money for such luxuries these days.

    These days people want want to sit down and leach some free wi-fi. Haagan Dazs needed to re-invent itself. Sit down locations, sell some good coffee too and the wi-fi. Could work (or could've worked)

    Posted in: Häagen-Dazs to close last store in Japan on Thursday

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    Historian Dan Carlin who produces a fascinating history podcast : Hardcore History, and he examined the issue in riveting and thought provoking episode entitled "Logical Insanity"

    http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive/Show-42---(BLITZ)-Logical-Insanity/Second%20World%20War-World%20War%20Two-World%20War%20One

    I thoroughly recommend it, it may change the way you view the atomic bombings.

    Posted in: Hiroshima A-bomb re-enactment dropped from U.S. air show

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    The oldest man with coolest name. Man he must have seen some things in his life.

    Posted in: World's oldest ever man turns 116 in Japan

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    I just voted for the NSX. Great car. There a video about of Senna taking one for a blast around Suzuka. Would have been awesome to be the passenger that day.

    Have only ever owned one Honda, their bad rep for smokey engines in the 70's and early 80's has lingered in my mind.

    Posted in: Honda to hold popularity contest for 208 models of last 50 years

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    I have a 1 Gbps. 99% of the time I cant utilize it at it's maximum. It's like driving a Bugatti Veyron, sure it can go 400kph but in reality you can only go at 100. Bit torrent connected to many other high capacity peers, connecting to a Japanese site where the connection has never left the fibre...that's about it

    100Mbps is plenty enough.

    Posted in: Sony launches world’s fastest Internet service, boasting download speeds of 2 Gbps

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    "An 82-year-old woman in Fukui Prefecture suffered a broken leg after she fell to the ground"

    Unfortunate for the old girl, but Fukui? I just looked it was Shindo 1 up in Fukui - most people wouldn't have even felt it, so I'm guessing she panicked at the warning message service? and fell in her panic?

    Posted in: 24 injured after M6.3 quake hits western Japan

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    That was a decent 15 second shake. Same size as Iran's the other day. Thankfully Japanese has better building codes.

    Posted in: 24 injured after M6.3 quake hits western Japan

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    My old xp machine, which was irrecoverable - would not even re-install by the recovery CD is now purring along without so much as a glitch as my work computer running Linux Ubuntu. A friend's old Toshiba notebook was the same - dead to windows. I got given it for free and now the kids use it daily without issue on Linux Lubuntu (light ubuntu) . Even old Win 98 laptops will run on linux - on really light distros such as "Puppy".

    XP: Rest in Peace.

    Posted in: Microsoft to end support for Windows XP in one year

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    Pulse used to be great, now it's owned by Linkedin? sigh, that site is Facebook for posers.

    Posted in: LinkedIn buys news app Pulse to broaden content

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    Linux ubuntu works and it's free. Goodbye windows.

    Posted in: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops

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    there were three midget subs M14, 21 and 24. This one in the story was the long lost M24.

    Curiously I have souvenir - a piece of scrap metal of the M-21 which was recovered along with M14 soon after the events in 1942. A full composite sub made from parts of the two subs was made for posterity, the left overs of mainly M21 were the bits made into souvenirs. My grandfather got it initially and it was passed down to me.

    Posted in: Vandals steal Japanese WWII submarine relics in Australia

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    I love the simplicity of google reader. Sigh.

    Feedly? hmmm, on firefox? meh, FF got ditched long ago. hope they come out with feedly for chrome

    Posted in: Google tosses Reader as house cleaning continues

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